An international research team has determined the first high-resolution structures of the herpes simplex virus origin-binding ...

A new 3D human brain tissue platform developed by MIT researchers is the first to integrate all major brain cell types, ...

Before cells can divide, they first need to replicate all of their chromosomes, so that each of the daughter cells can ...

Kate Adamala started work on a cell in which the natural molecular structure is reversed. Then a possible doomsday scenario became clear.

Rather than working on the surface of cells like some cancer medicines, small molecules are able to slip inside the cell to ...

Infrared vibrational spectroscopy at BESSY II can be used to create high-resolution maps of molecules inside live cells and ...

Researchers in Göttingen, Germany, have elucidated the structure and function of otoferlin, a protein that plays a crucial ...

Scientists have long wanted to get a closer look at the movement of lipids around a cell, but because organelles are so close ...

Prof. Dr. Elif Nur Fırat Karalar from Koç University's Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics and her team have uncovered the molecular mechanisms responsible for regulating a structure that ...

Graham Johnson, a computational biologist and scientific illustrator at the Allen Institute for Cell Science, recalls fantasizing at a lunch table, more than 15 years ago, about a computer model of a ...

Engineers are turning to animal origami, from insects that tuck away wings to a protist with an accordion-like neck, for ...

When cancer cells are physically squeezed, they mount an instant, high-energy defense by rushing mitochondria to the cell nucleus, unleashing a surge of ATP that fuels DNA repair and survival. This ...